The Mews Compliance Suite in Italy

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The Mews Compliance Suite helps Italian properties meet their accommodation tax, e-invoicing, and fiscalization obligations. In Italy, it includes Tax Automation, Tax Intelligence, e-invoicing through SDI, and, from January 2027, cloud fiscalization. You purchase the Compliance Suite once from the Mews Marketplace and then choose which features and integrations to use.

 

In this article, you can learn about:

 

Tax Intelligence

Tax Intelligence is a dashboard and report in Mews Operations under the main menu > Finance > Tax Intelligence. It shows the imposta di soggiorno you collected and the exemptions you applied, and gathers the data you need for your declaration in a document you can export.

  • Dashboard: person nights, both taxable and exempt, a breakdown of tax collected by rate, and a month-by-month trend.
  • Monthly report: tax collected, occupancy, including room nights, person nights, and arrivals, and accommodation revenue split into taxable and exempt.
  • Exemption log: exempt stays, guests, and person nights grouped by reason, with a line for each guest.
  • Flexible and exportable: filter by week, month, quarter, or a custom period, and export to PDF or Excel.

Note: Tax Intelligence exports the data but does not submit your declaration. The report only includes stays where all bills are closed. Each stay is counted in the month of check-out.

You can watch a short overview in the video Tax Intelligence in Mews and learn more in our help article Introducing Tax Automation and Tax Intelligence.

Tax Automation

The tourist tax in Italy, the imposta di soggiorno, is set by each municipality, the comune, and rates, seasons, and exemptions change often. Tax Automation generates the right tax configuration for your property and keeps it up to date.

  • Set up in minutes: In Mews Operations, go to the main menu > Settings > Property > Finance > Tax Configuration, open the Tax automation tab, and enter your address, latitude and longitude, and property details. The star rating and category, such as 4 stars Superior, matter most, because they can change which taxes apply.
  • Configuration generated for you: Mews works with a specialist tax data provider to find the taxes that apply to your property.
  • Always up to date: when a tax authority publishes a change, your rates update automatically. You do not need to check anything manually.

You can watch a short overview in the video Tax Automation in Mews.

E-invoicing through SDI

In Italy, invoices must be sent as electronic invoices, the fattura elettronica, through the Sistema di Interscambio, SDI, run by the Agenzia delle Entrate. An invoice only has legal effect once SDI has accepted it. The Compliance Suite includes the SDI fiscal registry integration, so you can do this directly from Mews.

  • Sent automatically: when you close a bill or issue an invoice with an SDI counter, Mews sends it to SDI in the background.
  • No certificate to manage: a Mews partner submits the invoices for you, so you do not need a certificate, private key, or password.
  • Status on screen: check each invoice in Mews Operations under the main menu > Finance > Fiscal record report, including the SDI notification, the XML file, and the archive confirmation.
  • Works alongside your fiscal printer: SDI handles invoices, while receipts stay on your fiscal printer.

Note: If you already use the previous Italian fiscal registry integration, you can switch to the SDI integration at your own pace. You cannot have both enabled at the same time.

What you need to do: set up the integration in the Marketplace with your company name, Partita IVA, address, email, and fiscal regime, the regime fiscale. Create dedicated SDI counters, separate from your fiscal printer counters. Make sure each company profile has a valid Partita IVA and Destination Code, the Codice Destinatario.

You can learn more in our help articles: How to set up the SDI fiscal registry integration in Mews Operations and How to fiscalize bills and invoices for Italy using the SDI fiscal registry integration in Mews Operations.

From January 2027: Cloud fiscalization

Italy is moving from traditional fiscal printers to cloud-based services for sending receipt data to the Agenzia delle Entrate. From January 2027, the Compliance Suite includes cloud fiscalization. Until then, keep using your fiscal printer for receipts.

  • No fiscal printer needed: receipts are fiscalized in the cloud instead of through physical hardware.
  • Sent automatically: receipt data is transmitted to the Agenzia delle Entrate from Mews.
  • Included in your subscription: it activates as part of the Compliance Suite, at no extra cost.

Note: Cloud fiscalization is available from January 2027. Until then, you only need to enable e-invoicing through SDI again.

Disabling Tax Automation

You can disable Tax Automation at any time. Disabling it does not stop your Compliance Suite subscription, and the other integrations in your Compliance Suite stay unchanged.

  • Your configuration is deleted. Your accommodation tax rates are no longer updated automatically, so you need to check and update them yourself in Mews Operations under the main menu > Settings > Property > Finance > Tax Configuration. Tax Intelligence stays available in Finance as long as the Compliance Suite is active.
  • To enable it again, open the same Tax automation tab and set it up again as you did the first time.

To stop paying, delete the Compliance Suite from the Marketplace. To learn how the Compliance Suite works and what to check before you make a change, see Managing the Mews Compliance Suite.

Pricing

The Mews Compliance Suite costs EUR 25 per property per month. In Italy, it includes:

  • Tax Automation
  • Tax Intelligence
  • E-invoicing through SDI
  • Cloud fiscalization, from January 2027

For prices in other currencies, see Managing the Mews Compliance Suite.

 

You can learn more about the tax features in the Compliance Suite in our help article, Introducing Tax Automation and Tax Intelligence.

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